NH010
Centennial Overview:  Status and Future of Natural Hazards Mitigation -- A Case Study:  Earthquake Science and Increasing Societal Resilience in the San Francisco Bay Area

Session ID#: 82454

Session Description:
Losses associated with natural hazards worldwide are on the rise, as humans move into more vulnerable, hazard-prone regions around the world; risks keep increasing. What have we learned from global catastrophes, such as the San Francisco earthquake and fire of 1906, or from hurricanes, volcanic eruptions or other natural causes? Over $73 billion has been invested in earthquake mitigation in the San Francisco Bay Area since the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake. The HayWired earthquake scenario, with cascading impacts, raises concerns that - especially in the East Bay and Silicon Valley - even more investment should be considered. What conditions make San Francisco receptive to using science towards accomplishing seismic mitigation? Are we ready, both as a society and as scientists, to work to reduce the impacts of coming natural disasters of all types? What can we learn from natural events that would transform scientific understanding and increase societal resilience?
Index Terms:

4323 Human impact [NATURAL HAZARDS]
4325 Megacities and urban environment [NATURAL HAZARDS]
4332 Disaster resilience [NATURAL HAZARDS]
4339 Disaster mitigation [NATURAL HAZARDS]

Primary Convener:  Kenneth W Hudnut, USGS Pasadena Field Office, Pasadena, CA, United States
Conveners:  Janine Krippner, Smithsonian Institution Global Volcanism Program, Washington D.C., DC, United States, Mary Lou C Zoback, Stanford University, Geophysics, Stanford, CA, United States and Dalia Kirschbaum, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Hydrological Sciences Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Primary Liaison:  Kenneth W Hudnut, USGS, Pasadena, CA, United States
 
Reported Investments in Earthquake Mitigation Top $73 to $80 Billion in the San Francisco Bay Area, California, Since the 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake (495347)
Thomas M Brocher1, Kerri Gefeke2, John Boatwright1 and Keith L Knudsen1, (1)U.S. Geological Survey, Earthquake Science Center, Menlo Park, CA, United States, (2)The University of Illinois at Chicago, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Chicago, IL, United States
 
50th Anniversary of the 1969 Santa Rosa, California, Earthquakes: A Mitigation Retrospective and Earthquake Hazard Outlook (545633)
Suzanne Hecker1, Darcy McPhee2, Victoria E Langenheim3, Martha Blair Tyler4 and Thomas M Brocher1, (1)USGS, Menlo Park, CA, United States, (2)USGS, Reston, VA, United States, (3)U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, CA, United States, (4)formerly with William Spangle and Associates Inc, Portola Valley, United States
 
It's Our Fault research programme: building earthquake resilience for the Wellington region (New Zealand) (563793)
Caroline Francois-Holden, GNS Science, Lower Hutt, New Zealand and It's Our Fault team
 
San Francisco Bay Area: An Epicenter of Community Resilience (595900)
Mary Lou C Zoback, Stanford University, Geophysics, Stanford, CA, United States and Arrietta Chakos, Urban Resilience Strategies, Berkeley, CA, United States
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